How to alter Netbeans IDE so it considers files with a '.red' suffix to be Ruby files?

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I'd like to play around with the Ruby Red Ruby-to-Javascript translator, and it expects its Ruby sources to end with the .red suffix. I haven't had any luck in figuring out how to set NB to consider such files as Ruby files, so any advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Ken McDonald

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Hi Ken,

I'm a bit late on this, but in case you didn't figure this out yet: you can change file associations in Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous -> Files, you need to create a new extension for the .red suffix and then associate it with the Ruby MIME type. Note that this is how you do it in 6.5, I'm not sure now off the top of my head how to do it in 6.1 -- for sure it is a bit more complicated, but I think you can do it somewhere in Options -> Advanced Options -> File Types. Let me know if using 6.5 is not an option for you and I'll find out how exactly to do this in 6.1.

Erno